Pat likes junk food, Mahlia likes salads. Mahlia’s young, Pat’s… not as much. With all of our differences, we work perfectly. We truly are best friends.

THEY SAY OPPOSITES ATTRACT, WE CONCUR

We spend a lot of time with our fur babies.

We have 2 cats River & Rose and our bunny Rory. Yes, we name our pets after some of our favorite characters.

About Ivory Door Studio

Yes, we’re THAT house that puts their lights up in early November.

Even though our family all lives at least two states away, we’re very close to both sides. We talk and text all the time, and travel frequently to see them. We love being able to spend Christmas with one side or the other every year (we alternate years). Christmas is big for both of us – Pat has a Christmas countdown on the white board in his office almost year-round

we say family first, and christmas is best

Every time we travel, we buy an ornament for our tree... we're definitely going to need a bigger tree!

Nashville felt like home the very first time we visited.

nashville is home, but we definitely get wanderlust

host family for a girl from Slovakia.

We were still living in Florida, and we spent the night in Murfreesboro on a long road trip. After we got back, all we could talk about was how amazing Nashville was. Once we were married, we settled on moving to middle Tennessee to begin the next chapter in our lives. God allowed for everything to fall into place perfectly!On our honeymoon, we went on our first cruise, and we’ve been hooked ever since! We have a passion for visiting new places and experiencing new cultures. Last year we were a

Timea spent almost a year with us and became part of our family - she's our overseas daughter.